Big data is not a fad. We are just at the beginning of a revolution that will touch every business and every life on this planet. But loads of people are still treating the concept of big data as something they can choose to ignore — when actually, they’re about to be run over by the steamroller that is big data.
Don’t believe it? Here are 20 stats that should convince anyone that big data needs their attention:
- The data volumes are exploding, more data has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of the human race.
- Data is growing faster than ever before and by the year 2020, about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet.
- By then, our accumulated digital universe of data will grow from 4.4 zettabyets today to around 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes.
- Every second we create new data. For example, we perform 40,000 search queries every second (on Google alone), which makes it 3.5 searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year.
- In Aug 2015, over 1 billion people used Facebook FB +2.17% in a single day.
- Facebook users send on average 31.25 million messages and view 2.77 million videos every minute.
- We are seeing a massive growth in video and photo data, where every minute up to 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube alone.
- In 2015, a staggering 1 trillion photos will be taken and billions of them will be shared online. By 2017, nearly 80% of photos will be taken on smart phones.
- This year, over 1.4 billion smart phones will be shipped – all packed with sensors capable of collecting all kinds of data, not to mention the data the users create themselves.
- By 2020, we will have over 6.1 billion smartphone users globally (overtaking basic fixed phone subscriptions).
Click here to read the full article. (Source: Forbes Tech)
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